Beauty : Beauty And Beauty

Every time you flip a magazine, change channels, or go online, you are struck with images of models who are super skinny with flashy outfits and have excessive make-up on. Ads not only try to sell their products, but also promote how females should look like. These models are airbrushed and photo shopped which is false advertisement. The media progressively encourages a thinner body image as the ideal for women. We see advertisements every day. Some of these ads use manipulative strategies that influence our choices and spending habits. For example, “One in every three articles in leading teen girl magazines included a focus on appearance, and most advertisements used appeal to beauty to sell their products.”(Teen Health) To grab the viewers’ attention, especially females, they include

For women, advertising exemplifies the ideal female body. According to Kilbourne, young girls are taught from a very early age that they need to spend lots of time and money to achieve this “physical perfection.” But realistically this cannot be achieved. The ideal woman’s body is Caucasian, very skinny, big breasts, no flaws, and pretty much no pores. This cannot be achieved because it is physically impossible to look like this; the illusion comes from the secret world of Photoshop. No woman is beautiful enough so they leave it to technology to create perfection. The supermodel Cindy Crawford said, “I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford!” She knew the realities of Photoshop and body image, and more women and girls need to become aware of this as well.

Moreover, as Richins (1991) reports, women always make social comparisons between the advertising models and themselves. As a result, advertising images create negative affect and increases women’s dissatisfaction with their own appearance. Since those images are edited through the consistent usage of digital technology, these idealized images do not portray women in a healthy manner. Indeed, these enhanced images would give these young girls the impression that they need to be ‘perfect’, just like these ‘fake’ images. According to Reist in ABC’s Gruen Session (2010), ‘young women get the message that they need to be thin, hot and sexy just to be acceptable’ in this society. Therefore, by generating the wrong perception of real beauty, the responsibility is pushed to the marketers, as they portray women with this stereotypical body type as acceptable. In addition, as the brand, Dove’s tagline in its advertisement - What happened to the ‘real beauty’? (Reist, 2010), marketers need not market their products in manners portraying women as airheads. Consequently, marketers gave most consumers viewing the advertisement, the wrong impression that

The first reason for promoting a healthy body figures in women is because fat Acceptance Promotes Well-Being .When people are accepted they are happier. a robust, laughing 12-year-old from University Heights in the Bronx, says. The ads show girls of different races and sizes, some playing sports and one in a wheelchair. that it is beautiful. girls are getting more happier with their bodies, accepting themselves girls are not depressed it helps

In the particular edition of Seventeen where this source was found, approximately 87% of the ads pertained to appearance, while only 5% of the ads had to do with education. The remaining 8% was left for fragrances and technology. The Victoria Secrets ad specifically, sets a standard for what they deem the “perfect body”. In this add, majority of the models were tall, with long legs, and slender. Each model looks as if they could not have been over 100 pounds. Of the 10 models pictured, only two of those models were of a darker complexion. The beauty standard set by this company is that those who are tall and skinny considered

The creator has to choose the right model for their ad, and the right model has to possess the perfect finesse to please the ad, but also possess the right finesse to please the intended viewer, plus other on-lookers who will have opinions on the portrayal of the ads. In Pozner’s article, she uses the Dove ad, and the backlash of this ad was based on a few things: First, the women used in the ad, were a good touch, but it is not allowing women to be completely comfortable in their skin, because the ad’s purpose is to create a solution for these types of women who have certain superficial issues. Secondly, the women used are too average, and they are showing viewers false hope, allowing them to think that it is acceptable to look out of shape, obese and other similar characteristics (Pozner 3). Third, men are superficial so the women placed in these, “female-targeted” ads must be a “fantasy babe” that allows for the superficial needs of men to be fulfilled, as said by Richard Roeper (Pozner

Beauty always has been a center of instinctive attention. It fascinates and paralyzes the power of thinking. After all, beauty is the cause of disputes and propagation of love. For instance, men look at beauty before anything else. Jacob and Whilhelm Grimm’s “Little Snow-White” gives us a better look on the idea of both beauty power and competition. For example, the queen becomes jealous of Snow-White’s beauty and orders her huntsman to kill her but because she is so beautiful the huntsman let her live. This demonstrates how women are competing with each other when it comes to their beauty and how even the toughest men become weak due to a woman’s beauty. In the tale ‘Sun, Moon, and Talia’ by Giambattista Basile, the king goes out to hunt and comes across an inhabited palace. In that palace, he finds Talia sleeping due to an enchanted spell. He finds her beauty dazzling enough that he decides to rape and impregnate her. This shows how a woman’s beauty clogs a man’s conscience and causes a lack of moral codes. Talia gives birth to two children and the queen finds out. Envy gets the best of the queen and she orders the chef to cook the children. She could not bear another woman being in her husband’s life. Men become weak when it comes to women and they do not usually care about the consequences of their actions.

This ad for Dove shows a girl who is clearly unhappy and uncomfortable in her own skin. Above her are the words 'thinks she's fat'. At the bottom the ad goes on to explain what the dove self-esteem fund is and how it helps girls ages 8-17. The purpose of this ad is to bring attention to how some girls have low self-esteems and will tell themselves that they are not beautiful. This ad is also bringing attention to the company Dove itself, by showing that they support girls and wanting to make them feel beautiful, so that you will buy their products.

One will see a white female with pouting red lips and the very petite body that resembles a thirteen-year-old girl. The extremely artificial women and the heavily photo-shopped pictures in these ad’s create a norm and make those women who look differently, feel insecure of who they are and make them feel as if they are less of a woman, for example they tend to over represent the Caucasian, blonde with bright eyes, white complexion and a petite body. This is an unattainable beauty for most women, which has caused many to develop issues such as eating disorders, depression and the very much talked about these days, anorexia.

As stated by the National Eating Disorders Association, mass media’s influence is greatly increasing. With this issue in mind in 2004, Dove created their campaign for real beauty in the hopes of reaching women struggling with body image issues. Dove’s campaign began as a way to strike up a discussion over the true definition of beauty. Since 2004, Dove’s campaign has had many different ways of achieving this goal to reach out to those struggling with beauty. These campaigns include counterarguments on issues including aging, thin as beautiful. Dove even made a commercial which showed women describing themselves to an artist, and then another individual coming in and describing that same person to the artist. Later the women got to come back in and see the difference in the drawings, which gave them an insight to how others view them and their true beauty. Dove conducted a study in which the results were that only four percent of the women in the world thought of themselves as beautiful. Their research also states that nine out of ten girls want to change at least one thing about their physical appearance (Our Research). Since their campaign for real beauty, Dove has set a movement for self-esteem. This

What is beauty? How do we decide who is attractive and who is not? Society is full of information telling us what is beautiful, but what fact is that information based on? The topic of beauty has been studied, analyzed and controversial for centuries. We all know the feeling you can have when you hear a beautiful song that brings joy to your heart, stand in a field of flowers that excites your eyes, or admire a face that is visually pleasing. As human beings, we are all drawn to beauty, but what is it that makes something beautiful? The controversial issue that surrounds beauty is that some believe that true beauty is defined by someone’s outer appearance, while others believe it is something that is experienced through a person’s

This tall, slender girl has smooth, silky arms with tiny goose bumps, her skin is cool like the air in fall, allowing her to be neither hot or cold. On her wrists, she has indentations from the numerous bracelets she wears daily. Her right hand has a fresh wound from her favorite sport, basketball. As you focus in on the skin that stretches over her hands, she has scars both old and new, both small and big. Her feet are crusty looking, yet feel smooth and cold. She has long delicate fingers allowing you feel the hard bones of her fingers under her smooth skin.

Many young women in today’s society struggle with confidence and their body image. This is a huge problem in society and many people have spoken out against the influence of media on women’s body image. However, it continues to be a major problem and more can always be done to raise awareness about societies unrealistic expectations for women’s beauty. Dove’s Choose Beautiful campaign was started to promote the self-esteem of women and encourage them to see their beauty, however there are some criticisms, including the company using this campaign to increase their sales. Dove is selling a product with the expectation that confident, beautiful women will purchase it, however people still have the ability to resist the ad industry.

Beauty helps us socialize better, helps us get accepted in all sorts of groups, helps as communicate with no restrictions etc. That is why beauty standards exist all over the world and people, especially women, are trying every day to reach them and to overpass them if possible.

When spoken words are no longer able to serve a purpose for expression or communication, people often turn to other means to convey their internal feelings and thoughts. The evolution of various art forms, including theatrical productions, artistic displays, and instrumental melodies have given alternatives to turn to when we as humans seek a different expression to observe ourselves through. Music is regarded notoriously for serving this chief purpose for listeners. With this perspective in mind, Jonny Depp once said, “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can 't.” In conjunction with the former assertion, music is often recognized for its meditative effect on an individual. Whether a listener is turning to